How many people buy First or Business class tickets out-of-pocket?

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There are many ways to get a business class tickets so statistics will be hard to come buy.

  1. Buy economy and buy up with cash
  2. Buy it with miles or points from loyalty or rewards prog
  3. Upgrade with a mixture of miles and cash
  4. Upgrade with instruments
  5. Upgrade with cash through an auction (Swiss, Lufthansa, TAP are doing this now)

You need to specify what exactly you mean by "out of pocket". With option 1,2 & 5, the customer still covers the entire cost of the ticket, just not with a single cash transaction. I've certainly done all of the above at some point.

Even when you buy straight business, you can safe a lot of money buying the right fare class: for example on United a P or Z fare is drastically less expensive than a C or D fare, which is again less than a J fare. $10,000 seems harsh. At the moment you can get transatlantic for less than $3k and Australia (furthest destination) for less than $7k

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